How utterly amazing that the insignificant little flying insects, the anopheles female mosquitos were actually responsible for ending the Roman army!

The armies in the Roman countryside used to camp near the swamp marshes and smelly lakes, the idea places for the breeding mosquitos in their millions.

But only the female anopheles mosquitos carries the deadly plasmodium falciparum microbe, which caused the disease of malaria, which means ‘bad air'.

Of course those days, nobody knew of malaria, or how it was caused.

Today approximately three million people die each year from it!

Ernest Izett, Brookfield.